Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago the Vagabond bought a new pipe. Nothing unusual about the incident, nothing unusual about the purchase, nothing unusual at all. Merely a brown, prosaic, upcountry corn cob that farmers smoke in the spring plowing. But it brought back to mind a far off day when the Vagabond had acquired quite another pipe, under quite another circumstance...
...outside, 10˘ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses, bellowing of elephants, laughing of hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder?the immemorial smell of Circus...
...high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double draw bridge, the eight great towers amid cannon, musket fire and smoke. And in the crowd stood Defarge of the wine shop grown hot with the work of four fierce hours. He called to his men, he shouted at his wife, he bellowed at the sky until at last in a great surge the crowd rose higher and higher until it struggled...
...play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving a victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present a series of hardy old-time melodramas, The Round-Up is played with sincerity and as much restraint as the lines allow. A seat for The Round-Up should...
Next day the patient emerged. He was sawed-off, fat and had smoke-rings, but he was not Abie. It was as if Dr. Eppess had tried to make him look like both Groucho Marx and Eddie Cantor...